The year was 1792. In Osaka, Japan, Lion Office Products was founded to manufacture and distribute a line of office supplies to business and industry.
Today, Lion has emerged as one of the largest suppliers of office products in the world. Two ultra modern distribution centers in Japan, plus 100 manufacturing operations, employ some 5,000 people in many nations.

Together, this multi-national team generates $500 million in annual sales of over 20,000 different office products ranging from simple paper clips to elegant executive office furniture.
Having survived as a growing and successful business enterprise over 200 years of wide-ranging economic conditions, political turmoil and devastating wars, Lion has truly stood the test of time-thanks primarily to the loyalty and support of our customers.

Today, Lion is totally committed to investing in facilities and people whose purpose is to provide global resources for the office products users. Lion is also dedicated to working with the environment, by recycled products or environmentally-friendly products.
Our most serious goal is to provide high quality innovative products backed up by dependable service and sold at competitive prices.
We believe it's the only way to make sure Lion will still be taking care of customers at the end of the next two-hundred years!

1792

Kohachiro FUKUI established his company in the name of IMAZUYA dealing in writing materials called "Fude" in Japanese.

1881

Started handling modern stationery such as Pen-nib, Ink and using the trade-mark Lion.